Ruling — Ark Nova

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How do I set up the zoo at the start?

Error counted as app error

Asked with: Ark Novabg-342942-en-1e

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How do I set up the zoo at the start? →

Answered Aug 6, 2026 gemma4:26b read Ark Nova

Something went wrong while producing this ruling — no answer is shown because none can be trusted. The wrench below has the failure detail.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ERROR — Error

corpus profile

live

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 431 ms · ask null ms · total 10298 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 10298 ms

retrieval refs (raw)

[{"page": 4, "score": 0.04918, "snippet": "For your personal setup, each of you takes the following steps: A Take a random Map A zoo map , and place it with that side up in front of you. Return the remaining zoo maps to the box. They are not used in this game. 4 of the 8 zoo maps have Map A on one side. All 4 copies of Map A are identical an", "headingPath": "Personal Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.047123, "snippet": "B 4 1 Place the game board in the center of the table. Take the Break token and place it on the start space of the Break track that corresponds to your player count. If there are three players, place the Break token on the space marked 3 . 2 3 Shuffle the Zoo cards to create a face-down deck on the ", "headingPath": "Other · Global Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 10, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Build exactly 1 building of your choice with a maximum size of on your zoo map. Pay 2 money per space. Available: Kiosk, pavilion, standard enclosure, and Petting Zoo. The size of a building is measured by the number of spaces it covers on your zoo map. In this action, you have the kiosk (size 1), p", "headingPath": "BUILD", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Your zoo (1) is established in the large area in the middle of your zoo map. This is where you place buildings such as enclosures (standard or special enclosures), kiosks, pavilions, or unique buildings. An overview of all enclosures shows their sizes and shapes (2) . You are not allowed to build on", "headingPath": "Your Zoo Map", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "3 Setup ................................................ 4 Gameplay ............................................. 6 • Your Zoo Map .................................... 6 • Zoo Cards ........................................ 7 → The Break Track ............................... 7 A Turn / The 5 Action C", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "If there are multiple simultaneous effects, you choose the order of execution (whether these effects are appeal, reputation, conservation points, or gained by the ability of the animal or from other cards). Fill empty enclosure : To play an Animal card and accommodate the animal in your zoo, you nee", "headingPath": "ANIMALS", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "The game board has a Break track to count down the time remaining until the next break. At the beginning of the game, and after each break, the Break token goes on the starting space corresponding to your player count (1) . Whenever you advance the Break token, move it the appropriate number of spac", "headingPath": "The Break Track", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.029644, "snippet": "F Draw 8 Zoo cards. Choose 4 of them to keep as hand cards and discard the remaining 4 cards to a face-up discard pile on the discard space on the board. Make sure to keep your hand cards hidden from the other players. A face-up discard pile is easier to distinguish from the other card piles. This p", "headingPath": "Personal Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 247}]

citations (raw)

boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)

no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 247 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true

base rulebook doc 247 boosted

answered-before recall

past answered rulings were found and offered

similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)

ruling 1757 — matched by the same question (normalized, punctuation folded) — measured similarity 1.0

error detail

CorpusRefused: ask refused: Error executing tool ask: internal error servicing ask; see server logs

debug row retained until

Nov 4, 2026 19:21

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	Personal Setup	p.4	0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	Other · Global Setup	p.4	0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	BUILD	p.10	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	Your Zoo Map	p.6	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)		p.3	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	ANIMALS	p.11	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	The Break Track	p.7	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Ark Nova — Rulebook (corpus doc 247)	Personal Setup	p.5	0.029644 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

no payload was recorded for this ruling (the call never returned one)

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 431 ms · first delta n/a · total 10298 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 431 ms · ask n/a ms · gateway work 10298 ms · total 10298 ms
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s ago)
stream path: requested, and the gateway WAS called — but the ask itself failed mid-flight, so this row makes no claim about what the child did or did not emit
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ERROR — Error
abstain rationale: the answerer offered no rationale text with this refusal (or the ruling predates the abstain_rationale column, V41)

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 173), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.